If you look at the original article (linked to in the post), it contains responses by a few of the security companies whose software was found faulty. Predictably, they say something like "We take security seriously, and we're working hard every day."

Until someone gets sued for malpractice (figuratively), this probably won't change.

Just like we need more gas stations in the middle of nowhere. Since such gas stations must be "less likely to be built or profitable", obviously they don't exist :).

So...how many gas station nozzles would it take to fuel all gas-powered cars at once? Wait, there aren't that many gas stations! Obvious catastrophe!

"After age 64, there was no significant change in the amount of sex people have, largely because this group reports having sex less frequently to begin with, the researchers said."

And get off my lawn!

"...shortly after Jesus was crucified people thought he was coming back and they thought he was coming back real soon. So you were told not to bother marrying and going about having kids and having sex because there wasn't any point." Uh, no, they weren't. Not sure where you got that from.

A few early church leaders (notably Paul) did not marry, while others were married (Jesus is said to have healed Peter's mother-in-law--it's pretty hard to have a mother-in-law unless you're married). There were some later (hermits) who also practiced celibacy, but that came later. Not marrying was not really a thing until much later--around 304 AD the Roman Catholic Church adopted a stand on those seeking ordination to be celibate, but that was not for everyone. And the Eastern Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church never really went along with even the priestly celibacy thing. Even in the Roman Catholic church, priestly celibacy wasn't enforced until the 11th century.

"The first country to have a reactor could 'declare a keep-out zone'..." Huh? How does a reactor make that possible? And how big a zone, anyway?

The article does not say the infection came from USB *drives*, it says it comes through USB *ports*.

Now look at your computer. How many things are plugged into USB ports? Keyboard, mouse, camera, microphone, etc. Any of these can carry malware--malware "apps" don't need to be large to call home and download whatever else they need. And where did these things come from? I'll bet most came from China.

Hacker in prison for a decade or so.

That sounds like by the time they get the helicopter to the place the drone was seen from, the drone is long gone.

And what do you know, no government entity did!

Don't worry, Trump will soon deport them.

The Philistines might have agreed with that estimate of the Earth's age.

"Hard drives in 1999 were, what, 30-40GB at most?" I was about to say you were wrong, since I bought my first 40GB drive in 1988. Then I remembered--it was a 40 MEGAbyte drive...

There are only a few methods that have actually been proven to last millennia: stone (rock engravings, but it has to be the right kind of stone--many cemetery headstones are unreadable, see also Ozymandias) and fired clay tablets are the best. Paper (at least in the form of papyrus) can last a couple millennia if stored in the right conditions, but degrades much faster in the presence of moisture; the ink is also important. Some pigments on rock (cave paintings) have lasted even longer, but again the conditions need to be right: darkness, and no flowing water.

Glad you mentioned the issue of software no longer being usable, a point that sometimes gets missed. Awhile back we were writing grammars of languages that we wanted to be usable in a thousand years. Word (at least the older versions), Writer, Wordstar, etc. are examples of binary formats that may not be readable then.
  We used XML, with a documented tagset. Of course paper may be even more readable in a millennium.